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| Katungi, Enid; Smale, Melinda. |
| Changing agricultural research and extension systems mean that informal mechanisms of information diffusion are often the primary source of information about improved seed and practices for farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper investigates the interactions between gender, social capital and information exchange in rural Uganda. Within the framework of farmer-to-farmer models, we conceptualize the informal information diffusion process to comprise social capital accumulation and information exchange. We assume that each agent participates in information exchange with a fixed (predetermined) level of social capital and examine how endowments of social capital influence information exchange, paying close attention to gender differences. A multinomial... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Gender; Social capital; Information exchange; Informal mechanisms; Uganda; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50070 |
